Process for separating rubber or rubber-like substances and resin from materials containing the same.



the treatment of 15 Bor eo for the purpose of separating from eacl other the sa drubber or similarsub- UNITED sTArEs PATENT OFFICE.

LEON HENRI CHANUT, or AUBERVILLIVERS, FRANCE, AssIeNoR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, 'ro' ASIA RUBBER OMPANY or AMERICA, A CORPORATION or M INE.

' PROCESS FOR sEPARA'TING RUBBER R RUBBER-LIKE SUBSTANCES AND RESIN FROM MATERIALS CoNTAININe'THE sA E. v

978 696 I specification of Letters Patent, p t t d D Q l 1910 No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I LiioN HENRI CI-IANUT, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Aubervilliers, Sei1e, France, have invented 5 certain newant/useful Im )rovements in lh'ocesses for Se arating Rub 'er or Rubber- Like Snbstancs and Resin from Materials Containing the Sa1ne,'of which the following" is a specification; i

' This invention relates to the treatment of .inaterials, containing rubber or a similar substance (such as gutta-percha, balata,

, etc.) and resin, and more particularly to the material called, dead stance and resin. As has been known for a long time, the treatment in question can be carried out by Submitting the'prodncts 20,,to be treated, to a series ofdouble attacks or reactions each comprising a first elementary attack carried outby means of a substance which can dissolve rubber, for instance, by means of carbon bisulfid, and a second attack carried out: by means of a substance which produces, simultaneously with a precipitation of the rubber dissolved during the preceding attack, a"";s'olntion of the resin, for instance by meansflof acetone.

As, however, up to the present it has been impossible to find the proportions and the periods of reaction which were really suitable for carrying out the treatment in question in an economical manner, the results i hitherto obtained were of very little use from the industrial point of view. Of

course rubber was obtained,jbut it was of a quality which at best was'fonly mediocre.

The present inventionovercoines the said 40 disadvantage however. It determines in fact both the ,proportio e in question, and the periods of reaction. I It consists, in short, in the following process which has merely to be followed step i i-by step in order to overcome all the difiiculties.

- If it is desired to treat 100 kg. of dead Borneo, the process is as follows; kneading machine is used, into WhlCh are introduced, after having been rolled andthen disintegrated, the said 100 kg. of dead Borneo, and then 50 liters of commercial carbon bisulfid. The reaction i'sallowed to take place for five minutes, at the end of on for about 20 minutes, 40 liters 0 c distillation. one carried up to abou Application filed June 27, 1910. s riarm. 569,212,

which ain the that tune materials at troduced into the kneading machine forms a kind of paste. The kneadin "machine is then started, and an additiona "qu' itity of 97.5 liters of carbon bisulfid is slow "added. Having allowed this latter reacti' mercialacetone are added and allowed to act, for another 15 minutes, at the end of which period the kneading machine is stopped, and the liquid found therein, is removed. The kneading machine is restarted, and 40 liters of carbon bisulfidlare [admitted into it and allowed to act for 20 minutes. 50 liters of acetoneare added and allowed to act for another 20 minutes. whereupon the kneading nn chine'is again stopped, and the liquid contained therein is again removed. The kneading machine is againrestarted, after-a further 40 liters'of carbon bisulfid' has 'been introduced into it. Almost immediatelyQO liters of acetone is added, and the reaction isallowed to go on for another 20'minutes. The kneading machine is again "stopped, and the liquid contained therein is again extracted. The kneading machine is restarted, afterghaving introduced 56 liters of, acetone, an'd'the reg action is allowed to go on for. another 20'" minutes. The kneadin machine isagain stopped, and the liqu'i. contained therein,

is again removed; This last operation a. the introduction of 56 liters of acetone and] kneading is repeated several times, pref-' erably another three times, after which only chips of rubber are left in the kneading machine, which are removed from the latter in their turn.v The'treatment thustakes three hours with the use, on the one hand, of 50+97.5+40+, 40=227.5 liters of-- .carbon bisnlfid, and on ,95 the other hand, of 40+50+20+56+56+56 -+56=334 liters of acetone,'the mixture of which, collected at the end of each partial operation or stage of the process, contains in solution the whole of the resin of the ini- 0 tial product, and has merely to be submitted to two successive operations of fract onal and the other up to about 729-6, order to separate therefrom the"rarbon bisulfid originally used; the I acetone originally used and the extracted resin.

It must bef 'pointed out that the process,

the different stages of which have been described, is preferably carried out in the cold state.

W hat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A process for treating material containing a rubber-like substance, and resin, such as dead Borneo, for the purpose of separating from each other the said rubber chine and extracting the liquid contained 5 therein; then restarting the kneading machine and ad ling for everylOO kg. of dead Borneo 40 liters of carbon bisulfid which is allowed to act for 20 minutes, then adding for every 100 kg; of dead Borneo liters of acetont which is allowed to act for 20 minutes; then again stopping the knead ing machine and extracting the liquid; then restarting the kneading machine and adding forv every 100 kg. of dead Borneo 40 liters of carbon bisultid, and then of 20 liters of acetone, which are allowed to act for 20 minutes; then again stopping the kneading machine and extracting the liquid;

and finally making a series of successive ad ditions each of 56 liters of acetone for every 100 kg. of dead Borneo. the reaction of each of which is allowed to go on for 20 minutes.

, 2. A process for treating material containing a rubber-like substance, and resin.

such as dead Borneo, for the purpose of separating from each other the said rubber or similar substance and the resin, consisting in placing the material in a kneading machine, adding for every 100 kg. of dead Borneo 50 liters of carbon bisulfid, which is allowed to act for five minutes; starting the kneading machine, and simultaneously adding for e ery 100 kg. of dead Borneo 97.5 liters of carbon bisulfid which is allowed to act for 20 minutes, then adding for every 100 kg. of dead Borneo 40 liters of acetone which is allowed to act for 15 minutes; then stopping the kneading machine and extracting the liquid contained therein; then restarting the kneading machine and adding for every 100 kg. of dead Borneo 40 liters of carbon bisulfid which is allowed to act for 20 minutes, then adding for every 100 kg. of dead Borneo 50 liters of acetone, which is allowed to act for 20 minutes; then again stopping the I kneading machine and extracting the liquid;

then restarting the kneading machine and adding for everylOt) kg. of dead Borneo 40 liters of carbon bisulfid, and then of 20 liters of acetone, which are allowed to act for 20 minutes; then again stopping the kneading machine and extracting the liquid and finally making a series of four successive additions each of 56 liters of acetone for every 10!) kg. of dead Borneo, the reaction of each of which is allowed to go on for QOntinutes before extracting the liquid, the whole process being carried out in the cold state.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEON HENRI CHANUT. ll itnesses i J. L. JAS'ION,

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